Qosmio G30 - installation of Windows 7

Hello

I recently installed Windows 7 on my Qosmio G30 (w / HD-DVD). Having noticed that some people have had problems with it, I decided to post my procedure.

My Qosmio has 2 hard drives with XP MCE installed on the primary. The RAID settings are 1RAID0 and JBOD. I decided to install Windows 7 on the second disc of HARD to dual boot with XP.

1. upgrade the BIOS to 3.90
2 put the Toshiba RAID for Vista (version 1.10.0016) drivers on a USB key.
3. use the Win7 DVD to portable computer startup in the installation program, it's better than the installer of in Windows XP/Vista.
4 load the RAID during the installation drivers to use hard drives (click on "Load driver").
5. install Win7.
6 install Windows Update and let it download the necessary drivers.

You may need to manually install the drivers for Bluetooth and video Capture card.

The upgrade process went smooth every thing takes less than 2 hours.

Note that the Windows 7 installer does not recursively for the RAID drivers search, you must select the folder holding the KR10N. INF file in the location of the RAID driver.

Hope this helps someone.

Hey mate,

Thank you for this very interesting and nice post! :)

I don t Qosmio G30 but I think it could be very useful for other users here. I love reading such display.

I installed Windows 7 on my Qosmio F50 and I m satisfied also again Windows 7. You too?

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